Tank-car.



PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

E. I. DO DDS.

TANK CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1905.

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ELI. DODDS.

TANK CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1905.

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TANK GAR.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 24, 1905.

8 SHEETS-SHEET 3v unirnn srar ss Parana orrion ETHAN I. DODDS, OF PULLMAN,-lLLlNOi$, ASSIGNUR TO THE PULLBilAN COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINUIS, A CORPORATION OF lLLINOiS.

renames.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed July 24,1905. Serial No. 270.997.

To wZZ- whom it may concern:

little cutting, and I secure withal a strong but light construction.

New and useful improvements will be found in the body-bolsters, .crossrbearers, hand-rail supports, center sills, tank-supports, and other parts of the car.

I have illustrated on the accompanying drawings one embodiment of my invention, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the car. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section of the car shown in Fig. 1 on the line 2 2 of the latter, the longitudinal straps for the tank being omitted. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section.

of the car shown'in Fig. 1. on the line 3 3 of the latter, andFig. 4 is a detai crosssection of the body-bolster on line 4 L of Fig. 3 and shows in addition the tank-support.

The center still comprises two spaced plates 10, to the lower edge of each of which are attached on either side tension anglebars 1 1. To the inside upper edge of each is secured a compression aligle bar 1 1. The cross-bearers 12 consist of bent channelbeams, the downwardly-bent portions 13 being secured to the center sills 10 by means of rivets passing through their webs. Longitudinal angle-bars 14, constituting side sills, connect the'outer ends of the cross-bearers and the body-bolsters. Side stakes 15, which are formed by cutting the web of an X-beam on the bias, areriveted to the angle-bars 14 and have securedat their upper ends loops 16 for holding a hand-rail l5. Boards 17 extend across the upper surfaces of the cross-bearers and body-bolsters and serve as a partial flooring. On each side of the center sills curved channel-supports 18 are secured, one to each flange of the cross-bearer 12, the upper portions of the supports being spaced apart by short channelsections 1U. Anchors 20 are secured to each pair of adjacent supporting-plates, and to these anchors are fastened straps 21, which pass over the tank 25 and hold the same in place. A tie or tension rod 22, Fig. 2, passes through each pair of opposite anchors 20 and serves, to hold them in place, as well as strengthening the tank-supports. It also acts as a tension means cooperating with the cross-bearers 12. The rod 22 passes over one or more struts 23, secured to the upper side of the longitudinal plate 25. body-bolster to body-bolster and overlies the center-sills 10 and overlaps the webs of the cross-bearers to which it is riveted, it being also fastened. tothe angle-bars 11. Plate 25" serves as a compression-plate longitudinally and asa tension-plate transversely.

The body-bolsters each comprise two tapering plates 26, provided at their lower edges with compression angle-bars 27, to

which the connecting co1npression-plate 28 is riveted. The plates 26 are spaced apart at their upper ends by means of a channehbeam 29, which is securedto the plates by rivets passing through its flanges. The tank-supporting plates 30, which are similar to the plates 18 above mentioned, are riveted to the upper surface of the plate 29 and are spaced apart with channel-sections 19, while thelongitudinal wood en supports 24 are secured to the metal supports 18and 30 in any suitable manner.

it will be obvious from the construction described and shown that my invention provides a tank-car witha light underfranie of great strength. The frame is also made of a number of comparatively small parts, so that it may be readily and economically repaired in case any of them are injured.

To one skilled in the art to which 111v invention pertains various modiiieations will be apparent which'will fall. within the spirit and substance of my invention as set forth in the following claims.

This patent is intended to embrace only so much of the disclosuremade herein as is hovered by the claims.

l claim-- 1. In a car, the combination of a center sill, and a cross-bearer having a bent end riv 3 5 plates, and a tie-rod connecting said anchors,

eted to said centersill,substantially as described. I

2. In a car, the combination of a center sill, and a cross-bearer having a downwardly- 5 bent end riveted to said center sill, substantially as described.

3. In a car, the combination of a center sill and a channel cross-bearer having a bent end the web of which is secured. to said center 10 sill, substantially as described.

4. In a car, the combination of two center sills, cross-bearers having bent ends secured to said center sills, and a tension-plate fastened to said cross-bearers, substantially as described. I

In a car, the combination of two center sills, channel cross-bearers having bent ends the webs of which are riveted to said center sills, and a tension-plate riveted to the webs 2o of said cross-bearers, substantially as described. l

6. In a car, the combination of two center sills, each having an angle-barsecured thereto adjacent to one edge, channel cross-bearers liaving bent ends fastened to said sills,

and a tension-plate riveted to the Webs of said cross-bearers and to said angle-'bars, substantia'lly as described.

' 7. In a car, the combination of center sills,

0 two cross-bearers secured to said center sills in alinement and projecting outwardly from said center sills, a pair of tank-supporting plates fastened to each cross-bearer, an anchor securedto each pair of tan'lesupporting substantially as described. 8. In a car, the combination of apluralityl of tanlesupporting members, and a tie-rod connecting said members, substantially as 40 described.

w '9. In a car, the combination of a plurality of tank-supporting members, *an anchor se cured to each member, and a tie-rod connect-d ing said anchors, substantially as described. 10. In a car, the combination of a'plurality oi tank-supportingmembers, an anchor se cured to each member, a strut, and a tie-rod 1 connecting said anchors and passing over said strut, substantially as described.

11. In a car, the combination of two tanksupporting members, each comprising a pair of spaced plates, an anchor secured to each of said pairs of plates, and a tie-rod connecting said anchors, substantially as described.

12. In a car, the combination of two tanksupporting members, each comprising a air of spaced plates, an anchor secured to eac of said pairs of plates, one or more struts, and. a

,tie-rod connecting said anchors and passing over said strut or struts, substantially as described.

13. In a car, a hand-rail, and supports therefor comprising side stakes T-shaped in cross-section, substantially as described.

14. In a car, a hand-rail, and supports therefor, comprising side stakes formed of an I-be-ammhose web has been. cut on a bias, substantially as described.

15. In a car, the combination of a center sill, a body-bolster comprising two spaced plates, an angle-bar'secured. to each plate adjacent to its lower edge, a channel tensionplate whose flanges are secured to said plates adjacent to'their upper edges, and two tank- ..supporting members riveted to said channel tension-plate, substantially as described.

16. In a car, the combination of a pair of center sills, a pair of cross-bearers attached thereto, said cross-bearers having their great est transverse dimensions disposed horizontally, and a tension-plate passing over said center sills and connected to'said cross-bearers, substantially as described.

17. In a car, the combination of a pair of .center sills, a plurality of cross-bearers attached thereto, said cross-bearers having. Y

their greatest transverse dimensions disposed horizontally, and a plat-e'exten'ding longitudinally of said car attached to said crossbearers, substantially as "described.

ETHAN I. DODDSQ Witnesses: I

WALTER M. FULLER,

FRE ERICK O. Goonwm. I 

